Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonylphenol

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English

Syllables: nonylphe-nol
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of closely related organic compounds, a subset of the alkylphenols, that are precursors to commercially important detergents.

Example Sentences

"Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels."

Etymology

From nonyl + phenol.

Inflected Forms

nonylphenols (plural)

Questions

What does nonylphenol mean?: Any of a family of closely related organic compounds, a subset of the alkylphenols, that are precursors to commercially important detergents.
Where does nonylphenol come from?: From nonyl + phenol.

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